Trimming Edging

[Larry Jaques]

Pat comes through yet again!

-- "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

[dadiOH]

It helps if you don't use the router handles to hold move it. Try using your thumbs on the baseplate with fingers extending down onto each side of the ply to help steady it vertically.

[tiredofspam]

[HeyBub]

I wouldn't know. I've always used a trimming bit.

[Puckdropper]

Greg Guarino wrote in news:jkvagt$rmt$ [e-mail]:

I tried it, and that's exactly what happened. It would work if I had some kind of stop (sacrificial piece of ply next to it plus a shim?), but there's better ways to do it.

Puckdropper

[John Grossbohlin]

I received one of those HF trimmers as a gift a number of years ago... it remains in the box as the base/fence are, as noted above, virtually unusable. Perhaps there is a way to make it work that is counterintuitive (compared to all the Porter Cable, Jet and Delta tools I own)???

John

[Greg Guarino]

In any case, I'm happy to have been able to *offer* advice for a change around here. :)

Being, as I mentioned, a novice, I actually made a small mockup using the same materials. I tried trimming the edge material with a router & edge-trimming bit. I found that, at least in my hands, it was difficult to keep the router level and the cut smooth. The rabbet plane worked nicely and perhaps most importantly, was easier for me to control.